I saw it. A pattern.
There was a delay between any two consecutive petrification, the delay was at least three seconds. None of the sheep could go past six meters, but the distance between the boundary and the boss monster was at least thirty meters.
The Aim-assist upgrade, helped a lot in judging the distances, the color of the target icon paled the farther my target went.
I had to check a few other things like, what if someone didn't step on the floor after crossing the boundary?
To confirm my suspicions, I summoned a few pigeons and tried to make them fly towards the trap, but they didn't go that way no matter what I did. They were too afraid to go in that direction, of course, I understood that, that's why I troubled Rina with one more task. I asked her to take these pigeons over the boundary with her psychokinesis.
'Heck, yeah! They didn't get petrified!'
She moved them further ahead, but the boss monster launched another round of debris. She maneuvered the pigeons, and redirected the high-speed chunks of the floor, she did all she could, but one of the pigeons got smashed by a small chunk of debris. The Bastard laughed for a full whole minute.
'That fucker is gloated, huh. Still, at least the rest of the five are alive.'
*Baaam*
A big chunk crashed with the wall, the wall cracked like glass.
'The walls were not going to hold up for long.'
Since it was now Rina's turn to launch the debris back to the boss monster, she, while still moving the pigeons forward, swung her arms forward and launched all the debris near her, clearing up some space here.
After moving past about 10 meters ahead of the first boundary the pigeons that were in the air, one by one, started to get petrified. She moved them in a row and quickened the pace and moved them further. The last trio got petrified too, this time simultaneously. Yes, it meant there were two more boundaries, there could be more further ahead, all with different effects, but all I needed to know was about the first two boundaries, the others after these could fuck themselves.
I tested a few more things, and then I knew all that I needed.
Five meters behind us are the walls of the boss room, three meters ahead, lay the first boundary, ten meters after that is the second boundary, and five meters from it was the third one. And about fifteen meters from the third boundary stood the boss monster readying another launch.
"The first boundary petrified anyone who stepped on the ground, either part or whole body, but there was a delay of three seconds before it petrified the next individual. The second one petrified anyone who was either above or stepped on the ground, it had a delay of about one second." I smiled "The third one didn't have any delay, the good thing is that I don't need to step into the third boundary. But make sure to keep me at least a meter away from it, understood?" I asked Rina, she was sweating profusely, blood trickling from her nose and ears, her sclera was completely bloodshot as if she would shed blood at any instant, her legs and arms shivered, she could collapse any minute. She looked beyond pale, she was barely holding up, but she still nodded in affirmation, there was a will to survive in her red eyes.
"I'll be counting on you, Rina," I said and tapped her shoulder, I was going to trouble her with one more thing before she could rest.
*BAaamm*
The shower of debris thrown by the boss monster crumbled even more parts of the wall behind and above us. A big chunk that was going to fall over us was launched back to the boss monster's face.
"That fucker killed Bron! I wish I could crush this irritating motherfucker's gigantic dickless face, but I ain't powerful enough! I hadn't pushed myself this much in my whole goddamn life!" She said, her voice cold.
I didn't mind the cursing, it was more than usual, yeah. But nothing unusual. Besides, it was only fair. However, her tone... never thought she could speak in such a way. That was too out of character for her? No... it was just... how do I say it? Yeah, it seemed more like her usual character.
I shrugged, pushing herself to this limit must be the cause.
"Slap my face, as hard as you can?" She requested back in her bubbly tone.
"Wha-?" I replied, completely stunned for a moment, but after a brief moment of silence. Thinking she asked that for clearing her mind, I complied and slapped her. I didn't slap her that hard, mind you. Her stats were way above mine anyway, her cheeks had only a bit of redness.
She shook her head and grinned. "Thanks!", she said and all of us rose above the ground and drifted forward.
The boss monster crouched to pick up more chunks to launch at us.
I looked at the first boundary, the two centimeters gap, it was barely visible. Amid the terror of the boss monster and fear of death, just how was I able to catch a glance of it, I wondered.
In just about an instant we already passed the whole ten meters of the first boundary, I saw another two centimeters wide gap separating the two areas. The second boundary.
The big-headed boss monster got up again, a bit of surprise on its face, despite us getting close, it readied the debris and swung its arms wide. I swung my arms as well and threw a handful of tiny ants, and hovered over the second boundary.
'This would give me enough time to fuck that bastard...'
I aimed my arm forward, with my index finger pointed straight towards the boss bastard. The rubble it threw at me flew past me, not a single chunk even brushed against me.
"It's still a bit further!" I shouted.
A rivulet of sweat traveled down from the cheek to the chin as Rina moved me ahead.
"Perfect now!" I said to myself.
My heartbeat raised...in anticipation. And a faint smile crept up my face...
"
*Baaaaaaaam*
The arm that it was swinging to launch debris at us fell down lifelessly. Its mouth that was laughing at us, slumped.
The lifeless shell of a giant, weird, big-human-faced monster lost its balance as it dropped to the ground on its face.
The Boss fell to the ground on its huge ugly face, dust and debris exploded and covered the whole area near the boss monster.
Instantly, at that moment, I felt my whole body being forcefully pulled behind, I was dragged to the back with enormous speed. The goal was achieved, Rina drew all of us back to the rear.
We killed the boss monster.
The revenge was exacted.
It could've been the moment to finally relax, but not yet.
When I was hovering over the second boundary, I caught a rough glimpse of Something. That Something could be Someone.
We hadn't won yet...